jnelson@trwrba.UUCP (John T. Nelson) (10/08/84)
Subject: Re: Changing Scripture?
[Larry Bickford]
Hmmmm... To say that the text is not accurate is to take away
from its authority. Paul notes in II Tim 3:16 that *all*
Scripture is God-breathed. In Matt. 5:18, Jesus also noted
that even the tiniest speck of the Law cannot be gotten rid
of.
To say that the Word of God is not accurate is to place an authority
above it.
[John T. Nelson]
Start over. Revalations. There are two issues here. One, that the
scripture implies that scripture itself may be changed by threatening to
judge those who should add or take away from it. If scripture CAN
indeed be changed then we have no guarentee of scriptural accuracy...
which is more a reflection of what they want and not of what the bible really
says.
Changing scripture is easy. Just publish your own version of the bible
and modify various important verses to whatever you like.
Don't fool yourself into thinking that it can't. God isn't
going to send lightning bolts down to make sure it doesn't happen.
Look at the Reader's Digest version of the bible. There's an example
where one third of the scripture itself was hacked away. Has the
content remained untouched?
Everytime someone sends an article on the net, scripture is changed.
Everytime someone speaks, scripture is changed.
Everytime someone THINKS, scripture is changed.
Authority does not come from an inanimate object. Statements (such as)
you have offered can be taken metaphorically... as was Jesus' statement
about the temple before he was crucified. God-breathed or not,
Scripture changes simply by being translated... by being used
in other cultures and in other languages.
It might also be argued that since there is evil in the world....
that therefore there is a higher authority in the world than God.
Well? Is there? See, we can play games with logic until the cows
come home, and it won't prove a thing. That's why people
prefer facts over speculation.
> PRAISE BE SSAKCAJ!
Who is ^^^^^^ (or should it be read backward)?
Comes from a short story written by... well whatever his name was.
The Book of Ssackaj was a hoax, written by a fictional author
as a joke. "The Book" details the experiences of the author with
a visitor from Venus who came to earth (with powers and abilities far
beyond those of...?) to teach us the "right" way. The author purposfuly
inserted mistakes, inaccuracies and cryptograms in the text to prove
that it was all just a hoax and people will believe anything they
want to.... but nobody believed that it was just a hoax, despite
the glaring mistakes and inconsistancies.
Gotta go... duty calls.
- John